There’s no doubt that Nick Jonas can heat up the screen – but he doesn’t care much for being labeled as a sex symbol.
In a new interview with GQ Hype, Nick was asked about his thoughts on his sex symbol status.
He says he does “think it’s flattering, but attraction is such a nuanced thing. I don’t take it too seriously.”
He mostly just laughs it off and definitely doesn’t want to take pride in it – especially when he thinks about the possibility that his parents could be reading some of the thirsty comments about him.
“I just learn to laugh about it and think about the fact that my parents are probably reading some of the comments. It’s not something I wear as a badge of honor. I tend to try to not think about it because it would make me feel a little embarrassed,” he shared.
He later talked about body image for men. “I think, when it’s comments attached to things like appearance and body image, that’s when it can become quite dangerous, because no one ever knows what someone is going through or how it affects them personally. They’re very sensitive topics. But in the same way, you live a public life and therefore parts of your life are going to be talked about and it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s fair. It’s just a part of your reality.”
He also opened up about growing a Disney star and certain rumors surrounding him and his brothers in those early days.
“I don’t think working with [Disney] has the stigma that it did in our day, thankfully. I think it’s wonderful what’s happening with Olivia Rodrigo and others who have been launched on programs that are targeted towards teenagers but are still being taken seriously,” he said. “I think one of the biggest misconceptions about [the Jonas Brothers] in the early days was that, first of all, it was manufactured, which is just impossible because, well, we’re brothers. The second was that the music we released as the Jonas Brothers was manufactured in some ways. It truly wasn’t.”
